Hewlett-packard Company

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Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Elizabeth Brandon Swan Diaz

Yancy Chen

Kun-Chi Hsieh

Bo Siu-Fai

Felix Guerra

Michael C Ip

Karl R Hassur

Amear A Karim

An entertainment device that includes ventilation openings in a bottom panel of a chassis of the device to reduce the chance that the ventilation openings will be covered and that the entertainment device will overheat. The entertainment device includes a motherboard that is mounted to a top panel of the chassis so that a CPU is mounted to the motherboard upside down within the chassis.

Upside down PC

A cover plate for a rear panel of a personal computer (PC) is disclosed. The cover plate has openings for connectors and ports found on the rear panel of the PC. Another portion of the cover plate conceals a portion of the rear panel from view. The portion of the cover plate that conceals the rear panel of the PC has text-labels identifying the openings in the cover plate. The cover plate is removably coupled with the rear panel of the PC.

Cover plate for a personal computer rear panel

A tower computer including a housing and a readily accessible motherboard, a modular optical drive, a modular power supply assembly and a modular hard drive assembly mounted in the housing. Also a method of making a computer comprising mounting a motherboard inside a first bay portion of a computer housing in a position accessible through a lateral side wall opening; mounting a modular optical drive in the first bay portion; mounting a modular power supply in a second bay portion; and mounting a modular hard drive assembly in a third bay portion.

Computers with modular components

A tower computer including a sheet metal housing having a plurality of separate bays housing a plurality of computer components, the plurality of separate bays including a first bay; and a power supply assembly readily removeably mounted in the first bay exclusive of any other of the plurality of computer components.

Computer with modular power supply assembly in separate bay

A tower computer which includes a computer housing having a first bay with an access opening therein and a motherboard mounted in the bay opposite the access opening; a removable media drive mounted in the first bay which has a normal operating position in which access to at least a portion of the motherboard is blocked by the drive and a displaced position in which access is not blocked; the removable media drive being readily-displaceable between the normal operating position and the displaced position.

Computer with modular removeable media drive

A tower computer with a sheet metal housing which has a plurality of separate bays housing a plurality of computer components including a bay located at one vertical end of the sheet metal housing with a media drive assembly readily-removeably mounted therein exclusive of any other ones of the plurality of computer components.

Computer with modular drive in separate bay

A tower computer including a motherboard enclosure electrically shieldingly and physically enclosing a motherboard assembly mounted on a fixed wall portion of the enclosure; a panel having an open state and a closed state provided on the enclosure for enabling access to the motherboard assembly; and a computer component mounted in the enclosure in spaced relationship from the motherboard assembly and having a normal operating position in which it is located between the panel and the motherboard assembly in access interfering relationship with said motherboard assembly and a displaced operating position in access non-interfering relationship with the motherboard assembly, said computer component being readily-displaceable between the normal operating position and the displaced position when the panel means is in the open state.

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Woodside, CA, United States of America

Elizabeth Brandon Swan Diaz